A Black Lives Matter activist who was fatally shot in New Orleans earlier this month may have been the victim of an attempted robbery, New Orleans police said Wednesday . Investigators revealed the new information, that 32-year-old Muhiyidin d'Baha of Charleston, S.C., may have been shot during a robbery attempt, as part of a public plea for tips in the homicide case.
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The power of evil seems magnified the closer it comes to harming what is good and innocent in this world. That was true when a man took 10 young girls, ages 6 to 13, hostage in a one-room Amish schoolhouse in 2006, eventually killing five and wounding three before taking his own life.
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It was raucous, colorful revelry for partygoers to the third annual Bal Masque, hosted by the Link Stryjewski Foundation and its founders, Chefs Stephen Stryjewski and Donald Link. "A Carnival celebration to nourish and educate the youth of New Orleans" said the invitation, stating a purpose for the party.
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In this April 9, 2015 file photo, Muhiyidin d'Baha speaks during a meeting with North Charleston city council about the killing of Walter Scott by a North Charleston police officer after a traffic stop in North Charleston, S.C. Muhiyidin d'Baha, whose legal name was Muhiyidin Elamin Moye, was shot in the thigh, Tuesday, Feb. 6, 2018, and died in a hospital, New Orleans police spokesman Beau Tidwell said Wednesday. The circumstances of the shooting were not immediately clear.
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Muhiyidin d'Baha, identified by the New Orleans Police Department as the man who died after being shot on Bienville Street early Tuesday , was a Black Lives Matter activist from Charleston, S.C. d'Baha, whose legal name is Muhiyidin Elamin Moye, made national headlines in February 2017 when he took a flying leap to wrestle a large Confederate battle flag from a protester in South Carolina, and the event was captured on video. That incident occurred at an event at the College of Charleston, where activist Bree Newsome - known herself for climbing a flagpole to remove a Confederate flag at the statehouse in Columbia, S.C. - was speaking.
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The Tsunami warning sent out Tuesday morning to residents in the Gulf Coast, East Coast and Caribbean was supposed to be a test, but an error in coding made it appear like a real warning, according to a statement issued by AccuWeather Global Headquarters. AccuWeather sent the startling alert to residents in several cities including New Orleans, New York City, Houston, Charleston, South Carolina, and Naples, Florida, but pinned the blame for the error on the National Weather Service.
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AccuWeather certainly has the attention of folks in several cities Tuesday morning . A tsunami warning was sent to AccuWeather app users' phones in cities including New Orleans; New York City; Houston; Charleston, South Carolina; and Naples Florida, among others.
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In this April 4, 2015 image from video, Walter Scott, left, is shot by police officer Michael Thomas Slager in Charleston, S.C. Slager, a white former South Carolina officer was sentenced to 20 years in prison on Thursday, Dec. 7, 2017, for fatally shooting Scott, an unarmed black motorist in the back in 2015, wrapping up a case that became a rallying cry for the Black Lives Matter movement. The embattled Minnesota lawmaker bows to demands to resign amid multiple allegations of sexual misconduct, the second Democrat to fall in a week.
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A roadway in Atlanta serves as a concrete reminder to drivers, joggers and neighbors that Georgia once took up arms against the United States of America. Running 1.4 miles from the leafy edges of gentrified Grant Park to the gritty bustle of Moreland Avenue, its name once got little notice.
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Matthew Mata and Erika Gonzalez participate in a memorial service for the victims of Sunday's church shooting in Sutherland Springs, Texas, Monday, Nov. 6, 2017. A lot of pastors, elders, and church leaders will be talking this week about a kind of security that is less than eternal.
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Albert Chatfield has good days where he's clear-eyed and lucid, quick with a joke and more than capable of taking care of himself in his home just north of Charleston, South Carolina. But his family had begun to worry about the 86-year-old's bad days.
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This graphic shows the track of the 30 costliest hurricanes to strike the United States between 1900 and 2010. The 10 costliest hurricanes in U.S. history, even when damage estimates are adjusted for inflation, all occurred in the past 30 years.
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While the remnants of Hurricane Harvey continue to bring heavy rains to Texas and Louisiana, a disturbance off the South Carolina coast may become a tropical storm in the next 24 hours, the National Hurricane Center said Monday evening . The disturbance, which was producing heavy rains and gusty winds, was located 35 miles south-southeast of Charleston, S.C., at 7 p.m. It had maximum sustained winds of about 40 mph with higher gusts.
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Hurricane forecasters tracking a weather disturbance near the Carolinas stated the weather system could become a tropical depression or a tropical storm Monday or Tuesday. Hurricane forecasters tracking a weather disturbance near the Carolinas stated the weather system could become a tropical depression or a tropical storm Monday or Tuesday.
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Hurricane forecasters are tracking a potential tropical cyclone in the Atlantic Ocean south of the Carolinas, as Tropical Storm Harvey continues to inundate Texas Sunday . Hurricane forecasters are tracking a potential tropical cyclone in the Atlantic Ocean south of the Carolinas, as Tropical Storm Harvey continues to inundate Texas Sunday .
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Members of the SWAT team gather on Vanderhorst Street as they respond to a shooting and hostage situation at Virginia's on King Thursday, Aug. 24, 2017, in Charleston, S.C. Charleston Mayor John Tecklenburg says a hostage situation in a Charleston, South Carolina, restaurant has ended with the gunman being shot by police. Members of the SWAT team gather on Vanderhorst Street as they respond to a shooting and hostage situation at Virginia's on King Thursday, Aug. 24, 2017, in Charleston, S.C. Charleston Mayor John Tecklenburg says a hostage situation in a Charleston, South Carolina, restaurant has ended with the gunman being shot by police.
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Scientists say Monday's total eclipse will cast a shadow that would race 2,600 miles through 14 states, entering near Lincoln City, Oregon, at 1:16 p.m. EDT, moving diagonally across the heartland over Casper, Wyoming, Carbondale, Illinois, and Nashville, Tennessee, and then exiting near Charleston, South Carolina, at 2:47 p.m. EDT.
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Charlottesville, Virginia, is bracing for an influx of white nationalists from across the country to Saturday's "Unite the Right" rally. The short-term rental website Airbnb has said its hosts will not book guests in town for the event.
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"Food & Wine's" restaurant editor thinks that young chefs are shaking up New Orleans' restaurant scene here in a great way. Those new culinary voices as well as the city's rich history of old-guard restaurants has earned the New Orleans a spot as one of "Food & Wine's" top 10 food cities in the world for 2017.
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